The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Negotiating Guadalajara’s streets and avenues is about to get a whole lot more complicated in 2015 with road works planned on various fronts. Also compounding the task of moving around the metro area will be the continuing work on the city’s third Tren Ligero (subway) line that runs from Zapopan to Tlaquepaque.
Jalisco government has announced plans to modernize its atmospheric monitoring stations as part of a winter strategy designed to combat worsening air quality over the colder months.
It doesn’t take much to gee up Guadalajara denizens into the yuletide spirit. With the city’s emblematic arches (Los Arcos) handsomely decked out in a bow, kiddies are having a blast at downtown’s winter wonderland attraction in the Plaza Liberacion, where they will find a skating rink, sled rides, Ferris wheel and Coca Cola tree.
American citizen Alejandro Garcia got the “shock of his life” after applying for a passport for the first time at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara in August.
Downtown Guadalajara has been transformed into a winter wonderland, with a large tree, sledding slope, ice skating rink, nativity scene and Ferris wheel installed in the Plaza Liberacion.
The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara has signed an agreement with the Jalisco State Government to assist with the modernization of traffic control in the metropolitan area. Under the agreement, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will finance a study to detect and analyze the most conflictive and congested areas of the city for traffic.
A man who caused the death of his nine-month old baby by leaving him for eight hours in the backseat of his car has been released, following the refusal of his wife to press charges.
Almost 600,000 people flooded into the Hermosa Provincia neighborhood of Guadalajara last week for the funeral of Samuel Joaquin Flores, the leader of the Luz del Mundo evangelical church who died on Monday, December 8 aged 77.
The Hospital Infantil Mi Gran Esperanza, Mexico’s first specialist hospital for children with cancer, is 80 percent complete and will open its doors next year in Tlajomulco, says its director Dr. Luis Antonio Alanís Villareal.
